Historical and modern photos of Russia, Europe and St. Petersburg, tourist & historical places. Travel stories. - Part 21

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The Church of the Archangel Mikhail

The Church of the Archangel Mikhail

4 декабря 2008 — Interiors, Painting and Sculputres of Arkhangelskoye estate

The Church of the Archangel Mikhail, mid-17th cenury.

Near Arkhangelskoye

Near Arkhangelskoye

4 декабря 2008 — Interiors, Painting and Sculputres of Arkhangelskoye estate

Near Arkhangelskoye.

Arkhangelskoye Estate history

4 декабря 2008 — Arkhangelskoye Estate history

As the visitors turn off the motor road into the lane lined by the stately pines, they see the main building with a tall spire. Its design is marked by clarity and restraint: . a facade in the depth of the court, an unassuming portico above the porch, illuminated in the dusk by the ancient lamps, plain smooth walls with the tall windows, set in white-stone platbands.

Casa Mila, Barcelona

Casa Mila, Barcelona

19 октября 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera, is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1905–1907. It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia (‘passeig’ is Catalan for promenade or avenue) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was built for Roger Segimon de Milà. It […]

Agios Nikolaos, Crete

Agios Nikolaos, Crete

19 октября 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Agios Nikolaos is a coastal town on the Greek island of Crete, lying east of the island’s capital Heraklion, north of the town of Ierapetra and west of the town of Sitia. In the year 2000, the Municipality of Agios Nikolaos, which takes in part of the surrounding villages, claimed around 19,000 inhabitants. The town […]

Okinawa, Japan

Okinawa, Japan

19 октября 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Okinawa Island is the largest of the Ryukyu Islands, and is home to Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture. The island has an area of 1,201.03 square kilometers (463.7 square miles). During the American occupation of Japan, following the Imperial Japanese surrender after WW II, the United States controlled Okinawa Island, which remained under U.S. […]

Ladakh, India

Ladakh, India

19 октября 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Ladakh is a province in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir sandwiched between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent. It is one of the most sparsely populated regions in Kashmir. Historically, the region included the Baltistan (Baltiyul) […]

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Kharkiv, Ukraine

19 октября 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second largest city in Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kharkiv Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Kharkivskyi Raion (district) within the oblast. The city is located in the northeast of the country at around 49°54′60″N, 36°18′60″E. As of 2006, its population is […]

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Saint Petersburg, Russia

19 октября 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject located in Northwestern Federal District of Russia on the Neva River at the east end of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27, 1703, it was capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred […]

Moscow, Russia

Moscow, Russia

19 октября 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Moscow (Moskva) is the capital of Russia and the country’s economic, financial, educational, and transportation centre. It is located on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District, in the European part of Russia. The metropolitan area of Moscow (Moskva) is the largest in Europe, whose population constitutes about 7% of the total Russian population. […]